PCI Security Standards

Heartland Payment Systems plans to protect its credit- and debit-card processing network with an end-to-end encryption system that it will begin rolling out with its merchants in the third quarter. This will be the first effort of its kind in the United States. Heartland has not yet publicly released the technical specifications of the hardware and software it is spending millions of dollars to develop.

According to the report of the Washington Post, the Internal Revenue Service let a contract to RBS Worldpay to process tax return payments for the coming filing season. RBS Worldpay, based in Atlanta, is the U.S. payment-processing division of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, the fifth biggest banking group in the world.

Deutsche Card Services was recently awarded the PCI Security Certificate for the fifth time in a row. The Certificate confirms that the clients of the Deutsche Bank subsidiary and their customers enjoy the best possible protection against any misuse of sensitive data owing to the conformity with the security standards developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.